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Current Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars

Robert Duval Hernandez
Post-doctoral Visiting Fellow
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
In residence September 2005 - June 2007
phone: (858) 822-6715 fax: (858) 534-6447
e-mail: rduvalhernandez@ucsd.edu
web page: http://econ.ucsd.edu/~rduvalhe/

Expertise

Labor Economics; Economic Development; Applied Econometrics, Economics of Immigration

Regions of Interest

Mexico, United States, Latin America.

Current Project

The Mexico Data Web Project

Publications

Duval has several unpublished manuscripts that focus on earnings mobility in Mexico, among which are "Dynamics of  Labor Market Earnings in Urban Mexico, 1987-2002" and "Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela:  Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses” (with Gary Fields, Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta, and Samuel Freije). Other publications include “El trabajo doméstico y los salarios. Un estudio para los hogares mexicanos” Revista Mexicana del Trabajo y la Previsión Social, no.3, January, 2003, STPS; “Management of Oil Windfalls in Mexico. Historical Experience and Policy Options for the Future” (with Stephen S. Everhart), Policy Research Working Paper 2592, World Bank, 2001; and “Leading Indicator Project: Lithuania” (with Stephen S. Everhart), Policy Research Working Paper 2365, World Bank, 2000.

Academic Background

Robert Duval earned his BA degree in Economics from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) at Mexico City in 1998. Before starting his doctoral studies, Duval worked at CIDE as editorial assistant for the journal Economía Mexicana, and at the World Bank, Mexico Office as a Consultant. In January 2006 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Cornell University. He currently teaches the undergraduate courses “Economics of Immigration” and “Economics of Mexico” for the Department of Economics at UCSD.




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